[gentoo-user] KDE and eye candy

[gentoo-user] KDE and eye candy

[András Csányi]

Hi All,

I like KDE and I use it on daily basis. I would like to change the
style of the windows but if the eye candy stuffs are disabled only the
original theme is working properly. What does it mean "working
properly"? In this case means that the parts of the windows are well
drawn according to design. Design of the window buttons on the
upper-right corner are drawn properly, not hided, they are not
blinking, etc.

The cause is simple why I turned off the eye candy stuffs, they are
hungry and eating my CPU. This is a little bit strange for me because
I have a reasonable nVidia video card with 512Mbyte RAM and my system
is well configured.

My question is that, it is normal when the eye candy stuffs are
disabled only the original style is working properly? Should I give
you screenshots about the not proper working to clarify what is my
problem? Should I report this as bug in bugs.gentoo.org?

Thanks for any help in advance!

András

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and eye candy

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 30 June 2011 14:30:09 András Csányi did opine thusly:
> Hi All,
> 
> I like KDE and I use it on daily basis. I would like to change the
> style of the windows but if the eye candy stuffs are disabled only
> the original theme is working properly. What does it mean "working
> properly"? In this case means that the parts of the windows are
> well drawn according to design. Design of the window buttons on the
> upper-right corner are drawn properly, not hided, they are not
> blinking, etc.
> 
> The cause is simple why I turned off the eye candy stuffs, they are
> hungry and eating my CPU. This is a little bit strange for me
> because I have a reasonable nVidia video card with 512Mbyte RAM and
> my system is well configured.
> 
> My question is that, it is normal when the eye candy stuffs are
> disabled only the original style is working properly? Should I give
> you screenshots about the not proper working to clarify what is my
> problem? Should I report this as bug in bugs.gentoo.org?

a clear description of the problem is absolutely vital. Here's how 
your question goes:


Q: KDE candy is broken
A: No it's not

You are going to have to put in the effor to be clear about what you 
are saying, use the correct names for things (eg the theme name, not 
"the original " - that's means very little) and probably screenshots 
too if the query is about corrupted visuals.

I suspect your setup is wrong. I have switched all my fancy effects 
off and all shipped 4.6 themese work here.


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